Section 13.6. CDs DVDs

13.6. CDs & DVDs

This handy pane (Figure 13-5) lets you tell the Mac what it should do when it detects you've inserted a CD or DVD. For example, when you insert a music CD, you might want iTunes to open automatically so that you can listen to the CD or convert its musical contents to MP3 files on your hard drive. Similarly, when you insert a picture CD (such as a Kodak Photo CD), you might want iPhoto to open in readiness to import the pictures from the CD into your photo collection. And when you insert a DVD from Blockbuster, you probably want the Mac's DVD Player program to open .

Figure 13-5. You can tell the Mac exactly which program to launch when you insert each kind of disc, or tell it to do nothing at all.


For each kind of disk (blank CD, blank DVD, music CD, picture CD, or video DVD), the pop-up menu lets you choose options like these:

  • Ask what to do . A dialog box will appear that asks what you want to do with the newly inserted disc.

  • Open (iDVD, iTunes, iPhoto, DVD Player ) . The Mac can open a certain program automatically when you insert the disc. When the day comes that somebody writes a better music player than iTunes, or a better digital shoebox than iPhoto, you can use the "Open other application" option.

  • Run script . If you become handy writing AppleScripts (little automated software robots, described on Section 14.2), you can schedule one of your own scripts to take over when you insert a disc. For example, you can set things up so that inserting a blank CD automatically copies your Home folder onto it for backup purposes.

  • Ignore . The Mac won't do anything when you insert a disc except to display its icon on the desktop.



Switching to the Mac[c] The Missing Manual
Switching to the Mac[c] The Missing Manual
ISBN: 1449398537
EAN: N/A
Year: 2006
Pages: 371

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